What is beamforming?

Hello All.

After completing today session, you will able to know exactly answer of below questions:

  • What is beamforming in 5G?
  • What is factors that effect beamforming performance?
  • What is 3D or FD beamfomring?
  • What are types of beamforming?
  • What is transmision mode ™ in beamforming?

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How a User Equipment decodes the received beam from beamforming? Can UE generate beams to send data from UE to Base Station?

UE knows which precoding was used for construction of that beam. Then data is retrieved from DM-RS demodulation.
Yes, to generate narrow beams you need more antennas though. So real “beams” are particularly visible in case of UE communicating on FR2 (mmWave bands).

Hello dear experts.

Could you share which are the 3GPP standards that define beamforming?

UE is not informed about beamforming.

Only about csi-rs ports and n1n2 configuration.

Available in: 3GPP TS 38.214
Contains details about Type I and Type II Codebooks in 5G.